Rajat Mitra
Rajat Mitra is a psychologist, an author and a speaker
A story I heard almost forty years ago comes to my mind as I write this. It was somewhere in the late seventies when my father used to work in Gol market and the school where he taught was next …
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A couple of years ago, we were on the last leg of our trip to USA. We were staying in Baton Rouge with my ex teacher and guide. New Orleans and Baton Rouge in deep south are two of my favorite cities …
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“Memory is now our only tool against the falsification of history” says Aditya, the protagonist of the novel “The infidel next door” when the judge asks him to bring evidence for the atrocities …
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“The education of every Jewish child begins by knowing about the concentration camps.” The year was 1997 and this statement was made to me by a Jewish psychologist as we sat and talked on the …
I had met Mr. KPS Gill twice as a co panelist on TV channel shows. Both times it was over a discussion on terrorism. He was surrounded by a group of armed commandos and did not speak very much as we …
Not many people know that during the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, many Sikh families who had lived in Kashmir for centuries, also had run away along with the Pandits and lived in the camps with …
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